Spatial Determinants of Entrepreneurship in India

Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr, Stephen D. O'Connell

NBER Working Paper No. 17514
Issued in October 2011

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We thank Ahmad Ahsan, Mehtabul Azam, Rajeev Dehejia, Lakshmi Iyer, Henry Jewell, Arvind Panagariya, and Hyoung Gun Wang for helpful comments on this work. We thank the World Bank's South Asia Labor Flagship team for providing the primary datasets used in this paper. We are particularly indebted to Shanthi Nataraj for sharing her wisdom regarding the industrial survey data. Funding for this project was provided by World Bank and Multi-Donor Trade Trust Fund. The views expressed here are those of the authors and not necessarily of any institution they may be associated with, nor of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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